 Stewart Brand: Can democracies deal with a new energy regime?
Stewart Brand has lived a charmed life. A public intellectual in a media-dominated world that often seems too fickle to support them, for more than 40 years he’s exhibited an uncanny knack for immersing himself in interesting ideas and groups of interesting people, and coming out of the experience well ahead of the cutting edge. | United Kingdom
EPIA questions UK’s feed-in tariff review 
In view of the announced anticipated review of the UK feed-in tariff one year ahead of schedule, the European PV association has aked the UK government to take all the necessary caution to let the market deploy and avoid destabilizing many British communities and companies which are starting to invest. | UN eyes $1.3 trillion annual investment to ‘kick start’ global green economy
Investing about $1.3 trillion -- or two percent of global GDP into ten key sectors ranging from renewable energy to sustainable agriculture -- would kick-start a transition towards a low carbon, resource-efficient green economy while also helping to reduce poverty, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Program. | Solar Thermal Electric First in a series of “technical top tips” released for CSP developers India
India set to host second CSP summit PV Solar US
DOE earmarks further $7 million to “incubate” solar technologies MENA
Has the solar boom begun in North Africa? Spain
Researchers in Catalonia develop high-performance photovoltaic cells Solar photovoltaics on “brink of economic breakthrough” with tripling of global capacity by 2015 United States
Thin-film solar PV reaches record 12 percent efficiency Panorama Japan
Japan to adopt feed-in tariff scheme India
World Bank: Renewables crucial to meeting India’s energy needs United States
Obama sends $3.7 trillion, renewable energy-friendly budget to US Congress Agenda World Sustainable Energy Days 2011 Conferenza dell Industria Solar - Italia 2011 | 
